Famous quotes containing the words green, fairy and/or book:
“Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historical, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the formerthe youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powersprevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.”
—Joseph Campbell (19041987)
“Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my sons third grade teacher refers to as a teachable moment.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)